ERIC ED610050: Virtual Internationalization in Higher Education. Innovative University: Digital -- International -- Transformative

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Virtual Internationalization
in Higher Education
Innovative Hochschule: digital – international – transformativ 1
Virtual Internationalization in Higher Education
Elisa Bruhn
Innovative Hochschule: digital – international – transformativ
Series Editors
Dr. Elisa Bruhn is Policy Advisor for Higher Education at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Interna-
tionale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). She has extensive experience in higher education research and
administration as well as in international cooperation in higher education and science.
Dr. Svenja Bedenlier is an assistant professor of e-learning in higher and adult education in
the Department of Education and the Institute for Innovation in Learning at the Friedrich-
Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Dr. Tanja Reiffenrath, of the Department for Student and Academic Affairs, at the University
of Göttingen, is responsible for the internationalization of the curricula. In this position, she
supports teaching staff in the integration of international and transcultural perspectives into
the curricula. She is currently Chair of the Expert Community “Internationalisation at Home” of
the European Association for International Education (EAIE).
Series Description
The series Innovative Hochschule: digital – international – transformativ (Innovative University: digital
– international – transformative) offers a platform for academic exchange in the field of higher education
development. It addresses actors from higher education research, management and administration, as well
as teaching staff. The series is characterized by three keywords:
• Digital: Contributions address digitalization processes in higher education curricula, academic coopera tion,
and administrative practice, as well as their implications for the respective stakeholders.
• International: Various perspectives on the dimensions of comprehensive internationalization of higher
education institutions are discussed, with particular emphasis on innovative approaches.
• Transformative: Further transformations that higher education institutions undergo based on shifts in
their self-conception, or in reaction to changes in their societal and political environment, are presented.
This series covers academic contributions, works that connect theory and practice, and theses. Publications
can be of either empirical or theoretical-conceptual nature, and they can be composed in either German or
English.
Elisa Bruhn
Virtual Internationalization
in Higher Education
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Virtual Internationalization in Higher Education
von der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
– Fakultät I Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften –
zur Erlangung des Grades einer
Doktorin der Philosophie (Dr. phil.)
genehmigte Dissertation von
Frau Elisa Bruhn, M.A.
geboren am 10.04.1983 in Herford
Referent: Prof. Dr. habil. Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Korreferent: Prof. Dr. Marco Kalz
Tag der Disputation: 09.03.2020
No hay camino.
Se hace camino al andar.
Antonio Machado

Contents
List of abbreviations .................................................. 13
Reihenvorwort/Series Preface .......................................... 15
Foreword ........................................................... 17
Abstract ............................................................ 19
1 Introduction ................................................... 23
1.1 Background of the study ......................................... 23
1.2 Purpose of the study and research questions ........................ 24
1.3 Composition of the study ........................................ 26
2 Theoretical foundations ......................................... 29
2.1 Digital technology and virtuality .................................. 29
2.2 Higher education and digitalization ............................... 31
2.2.1 Digitalization and virtualization in higher education ........... 31
2.2.2 Contributions from the distance education field ................ 34
2.3 Internationalization and digitalization ............................. 38
2.3.1 Internationalization: definitions and broader discourse ......... 38
2.3.2 The conceptual model of Comprehensive Internationalization
(CI) as a basis for the conceptualization of Virtual Internationali-
zation (VI) ............................................... 42
2.3.3 Spatial terms in the virtual space? A re-evaluation of internatio-
nalization-related vocabulary................................ 45
2.4 Defining Virtual Internationalization (VI) .......................... 47
3 Literature review ............................................... 51
3.1 The combination of digitalization and internationalization
in the scholarly discussion ....................................... 51
3.2 Virtual contributions to internationalization ........................ 54
3.2.1 Articulated institutional commitment to VI ................... 54
3.2.2 Administrative leadership, structure, and staffing .............. 57
3.2.3 Curriculum, co-curriculum, and learning outcomes ............ 58
3.2.4 Faculty policies and practices ............................... 63
3.2.5 Physical student mobility .................................. 66
3.2.6 Collaboration and partnerships ............................. 71
3.3 Summary: the state of research on VI .............................. 75